On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 11:44:12AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I could not find the zim-tools utility on the debian repository: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim-tools > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=zim > and I can't use git since I do not connect my work computer to the Internet. > Is there a debian package or tar ball somewhere which could be > installed locally? > Thanks > zim tools is in Buster backports -
https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/zim-tools Zim tools Debian into Google found this one for me: packages.debian.org is a good place to find what's actually packaged and a search on zim-tools also found this for me just now - maybe you had a glitch somewhere? - https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=zim-tools Hope this helps, Andy C > > On 12/12/20, Emmanuel Engelhart <kel...@kiwix.org> wrote: > > On 12.12.20 10:42, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> based on what I have read on: > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format) > >> > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils > >> > >> the zim file format is not exactly based on the zip one, > > > > Not at all. > > > >> which also > >> includes archiving. Say you would like to extract just one file to > >> work on it, without decompressing the whole file. > >> > >> How could you do that? > >> > > With zimdump in the zim-tools https://github.com/openzim/libzim/issues/397 > > > > Or you can use one of the binding node/python. > > > > Emmanuel > > > > > > > > -- > > Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more > > * Web: https://kiwix.org/ > > * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline > > * Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/ > > > > >